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This week's update includes information on:

• Nominate a Provider Portal User
• Early Education Entitlements
  • Portal Opening for Headcount
• Early Talk Boost

Please feel free to share this update with anyone you think would benefit from accessing this content. 

If you have any questions or feedback, please contact familyinformation@birmingham.gov.uk

Nominate a Provider Portal User

As you may already be aware, the Early Years and Childcare Team has launched a new Information Portal for providers called the Nexus Provider Portal. 

Many providers have already nominated a Nexus Provider Portal user. If you haven’t already done so, please do this today using our . You can have accounts for up to four people within your organisation. 

The introduction of this portal will enable us to:

• strengthen the information that we collect from you to support our sufficiency data
• improve the information that we can provide to parents and third parties when they are looking for childcare options
• contact you more efficiently.  

Please note: Completing this form does not immediately create your account. After we verify the nominated user form, we will send you a link to create your Provider Portal account.

If you have any queries about the Nexus Provider Portal, please contact FamilyInformation@birmingham.gov.uk

Top Safety Tips

Child Accident Prevent Trust (CAPT) have produced some tips for keeping children safe as the weather is getting warmer, including:

• Window safety
• Garden safety
• Swim safe
• BBQ’s and staying safe

The information can be found here: .

Early Education Entitlements 

Portal Opening for Headcount

Headcount Date is Thursday 15th May 2025

Portal Open: Thursday 15th May 2025 at 0.01am           

Portal Close: Thursday 22nd May 2025 at 23:59pm (midnight)

Summer term headcount is next week, please ensure that you read the following information carefully to enable you to submit an accurate headcount claim. Inaccurate claims will be sent back to you to rectify and resubmit.

You must only include children on your portal headcount claim that have started at your setting before headcount day which is Thursday 15th May 2025. Any children wanting a place after headcount day must meet the flexible or exceptional criteria. You must submit a Funding Request Form. 

As is usual for summer term every year, you will be required to complete your Census before your usual Data Collection form, then headcount claim.

Step by Step guides for each element of these claims – Census, Data Collection and Headcount entry – will be emailed out to the named EEE contact.  

Summer term is 13 weeks. This is the maximum number of weeks you can claim. If children have a later start date, you should adjust the number of weeks you are claiming accordingly. 

Children changing Providers: If children have left another setting to come to you, please ensure that the parents are aware of any fees that they may owe the other setting and that they have told the other setting that they have left. 

Stretch Entitlement: If you offer stretch entitlement, please remember that you must not enter stretch hours on the portal – the hours must be the term time equivalent.

Early Years & Childcare Service Workshops Schedule (May to July 2025)

All Early Years providers, EEE providers, Childminders, Out of School Clubs, and Maintained Nursery Schools are invited to attend the Early Years and Childcare Services workshops.

We would like to remind you of the workshops we have coming up for the rest of this academic year. You can also find an up-to-date list of our workshops on the .

To book onto one of these sessions, choose the workshop you are interested in attending below and sign up via the workshop registration page.

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  • Thursday 5th June, 1pm – 3pm
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  • Thursday 8th May, 6pm – 7pm
  • Tuesday 1st July, 11am – 12pm
• • Tuesday 13th May, 6pm – 7pm
  • Thursday 3rd July, 11am – 12pm
• • Friday 16th May, 1pm – 4pm
  • Tuesday 10th June, 6pm – 8.30pm
  • Thursday 10th July 9.30am – 12.30pm
• • Thursday 19th June 12.30pm – 3.30pm
• • Monday 9th June, 6pm – 8pm
• • Thursday 15th May, 9.30am – 11.30am
  • Thursday 19th June, 1pm – 3pm
• • Monday 12th May, 10am – 11am
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  • Thursday 10th July, 6pm – 8pm
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  • Thursday 3rd July, 6pm – 8pm

Please note: spaces are limited and are allocated on a first come first served basis.

We run a weekday duty service where you can access support, advice and guidance from one of our Early Years Consultants:

Email us - eyduty@birmingham.gov.uk

Talk to us - 0121 675 4996

We’re available Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm (except bank holidays)

Early Talk Boost

This training is FREE and funded by Birmingham City Council, suitable for Birmingham EEE Funding Registered Day Nurseries, Nursery Schools and School Nursery Classes.

Early Talk Boost is a targeted intervention aimed at 3-4-year-old children who need help with talking and understanding words, helping to boost their language skills to narrow the gap between them and their peers. The programme aims to accelerate children’s progress in language and communication by an average of 6 months, after a nine-week intervention. 

Children selected to take part in the intervention will attend three sessions per week during circle/story time, each lasting 15-20 minutes delivered by an early year’s practitioner. The sessions activities include the foundation skills in speech, language, and communication that children need for learning and understanding new words, as well as having conversations. The training is delivered face to face and each setting will receive 2 boxes of Early Talk Boost resources.

The sessions take place at 9.30am – 3.00pm with a 20-person capacity:

• Wednesday 21st May 2025, Wyndcliffe Primary School, Little Green Lane, B9 5BG
• Thursday 22nd May 2025, Erdington Family Hub (Lakeside Children's Centre), 22 Lakes Road, B23 7UH
• Friday 6th June 2025, Erdington Family Hub (Lakeside Children's Centre), 22 Lakes Road, B23 7UH
• Friday 20th June 2025, Perry Barr Family Hub (Rookery Children's Centre), 60 Mount Pleasant Avenue, B21 9QA

Please fill out the  to choose your preferred date and location.